Dear Weekly Readers!
As you know my time is very tight while on this journey visiting churches here in America. Therefore, I am calling upon articles written by friends in the faith! Today our article is by brother David Impola! May God Bless you all this week! John R.
"Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt... Points to the refuge, the mighty cross… Whiter than snow you may be today… Will you this moment His grace receive? Grace that will pardon and cleanse within. Grace that is greater than all our sin."
(Julia H. Johnston)
A s the selected lines from the song "Grace Greater than Our Sin" express, our God is ready to pardon and His grace is immeasurable. As one precious brother in Christ said, "It is
not the enormity of a man's sin that condemns him, but the rejection of God's grace condemns him."
The devil likes to go fishing in the sea of grace to dredge up our past sins, to cause
us to be discouraged and lose our focus on Jesus Christ. The devil has only one purpose toward the children of God. As Jesus makes known: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and
to kill, and to destroy... But Jesus reassures us: ...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)
May we rejoice and praise God for the revelation of Jesus Christ in saving us
from our sin. Apostle Paul says, That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)
from our sin. Apostle Paul says, That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)
When we comprehend God's love, it motivates us to reach out to others with the desire that they, too, would come to know His love. God has comforted us not for our comfort alone, but
also that we would be comforters to others in need. The blessings we receive from God, we pass on to others. 2 Corinthians 1:4 instructs us in this way: Who comforteth us in all our
tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
also that we would be comforters to others in need. The blessings we receive from God, we pass on to others. 2 Corinthians 1:4 instructs us in this way: Who comforteth us in all our
tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
By grace may our faith be exercised in the milk and meat of His Word. Apostle Peter has good instruction for us as Christians: According as his divine power hath given unto us all
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that
by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and
to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:3-8)
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that
by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and
to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:3-8)
"O happy day when we shall stand, amid the heavenly throng, and sing with hosts from every land the new celestial song, the new celestial song." (Wilhelm A. Wexels)
Constrained by the love of God,
Dave Impola
Everett, Washington
Dave Impola
Everett, Washington
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